Word: starters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brett's first homer came in the first inning off Jim "Catfish" Hunter, New York's starter. The lead was short-lived as Reggie Jackson blasted a Paul Splittorff pitch over the right field fence in the second...
...starter and ex-Yankee Mike Torrez lost his Midas touch in the top of the seventh, though, yielding two singles before shortstop Bucky Dent came to the plate with two outs...
...Phillies got reasonably serious in their half of the fifth, knocking out L.A. starter Burt Hooton and stringing together five singles for three runs and a 7-4 ball game. Steve Yeager, the Dodger catcher, then answered back in the sixth when he took Philadelphia reliever Rawly Eastwick deep for the Dodgers eighth tally...
Monday night it was the Yankees who pounded out 16 hits en route to a 7-1 triumph, but yesterday the tide shifted the other way, with the Royals creaming 16 hits, chasing New York starter and loser Ed Figueroa in the second inning...
Every batter in the Yankee lineup had at least one hit as the Yankees jumped on Kansas City starter Dennis Leonard (22-17) for two hits in each of the first four innings before he gave way to a series of equally ineffective relievers in the fifth...